Habitat 67
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Title
Habitat 67
Agent
Moshe Safdie (Canadian architect, born 1938)
Location
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
-28.043623
Date
1967 (creation)
20th century
Style Period
Brutalist
Modernist
Cultural Context
Canadian
Worktype
buildings
dwellings
multiple dwellings
apartment houses
buildings
exhibition buildings
complexes
housing projects
Material
concrete
glass
Technique
construction
Subject
Architecture and City Planning
Description
Safdie's first architectural success was Habitat '67, built for Expo '67 in Montreal. Although Habitat cannot be considered a pioneering work of industrialized reinforced concrete building, Safdie's contribution to this architectural method was to give new dimensions to living spaces by using interlocking units that contained their own support system. By eliminating the need for exterior skeletal support, he created an economically viable way to construct individualized homes that could adapt to any environment or individual, yet only require one basic unit of construction. Using a single box construction, Safdie created 158 homes in 15 different styles from 351 modular construction units. The result was a visually dramatic three-dimensional communal space (living units, lift shafts, streets, recreational space) where all the units participate in carrying the structural load.
Rights
© Saif Haq
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ID
Haq1172
Source
Saif Haq
Collection
Citation
Safdie, Moshe, Habitat 67, 1967 (creation), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, TTU Arch Design Images. Image Source: Saif Haq. https://archimage.lib.ttu.edu/items/show/19097.
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